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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hei,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">tervetuloa 12.-13.3.2018 Helsingin yliopistossa Tutkijakollegiumissa järjestettävään kansainväliseen seminaariin. Mitään etukäteen ilmoittautumista ei tarvita. Ks. alla myös ohjelma.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">yst. terv. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Maijastina Kahlos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoTitleCxSpFirst"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoTitleCxSpLast"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">“Ideas and Identities in Late Antiquity: Jews, Christians, and Muslims”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">A symposium organized by Maijastina Kahlos, Ilkk</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">a Lindstedt, Nina Nikki, and Riikka Tuori at the Helsinki Collegium for
Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, <b>Monday–Tuesday,</b> <b>March 12–13, 2018</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">The symposium will bring together scholars of late antique Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, with a special emphasis on the scholarly comparison of the religious traditions and
application of modern theory to ancient texts and social realities. The chronological range of the symposium is approximately from the first to the eighth centuries CE and the geographical pivot is the Near East.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">The symposium will address questions such as: How did Jews formulate their identities during this period and, on the other hand, how are they portrayed in Christian and Muslim
literatures? How did religious and literary texts construct and maintain in-group identities of the three religious communities? What is the function of various outsiders, such as “pagans” and the Qur</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ʾ</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">ānic
<i>mushrikūn </i>(“associators”), in this process? How did the religious communities interact socially in light of archaeological evidence? From a cognitive point of view, which particularities of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas were crucial for drawing
the boundaries to other religious groups and, furthermore, help explain their success (or the lack thereof) during the late antique period?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Venue:
<b>Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24 a, 3rd floor Common Room<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">The symposium is open for students and researchers to participate as audience (no registration needed)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Programme<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Monday, 12 March, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">9.45–10.00: Welcome & introductions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">10.00–12.00: Session I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Raimo Hakola: Bi-Cultural Jewish and Christian Minority Identities in the Roman World<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Antti Vanhoja: Rejection of Paul as a Means of Identity Construction – the Case of the Ebionites<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Ulla Tervahauta: Violence, Ethnicity and Otherness in John Moschus’
<i>Meadow</i>: Christian and Jewish Identities in Byzantine Palestine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Nina Nikki: Discussant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">12.00–1.30 PM: Catered lunch for speakers and discussants in the Common Room<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">1.30–3.00 PM: Session II<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Holger Zellentin: Legal Hermeneutics and the Birth of Islam, Christianity and Judaism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Joonas Maristo & Anna-Liisa Tolonen: Maccabean Martyrs in Pharaoh’s Court?
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">The Story of a Mother and Her Sons in
<i>Hadith</i> Literature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Riikka Tuori: Discussant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">3.00–4.00: Coffee break<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">4.00–6.00: Session III<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Nicola Denzey Lewis: Discerning Religious Identities in Late Antique Rome: The Epigraphic Landscape<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Eduard Iricinschi: Manichaeans and Christians in Fourth-Century Egypt: A Building-Block Approach to Understanding Hybrid Religious Identities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Antti Lampinen: A Merchant-Geographer’s Identity? Untangling the Layers of Religious Affinity in the <i>Expositio totius mundi et gentium<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Maijastina Kahlos: Discussant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">7.00 PM: Reception for speakers and discussants in the Common Room<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Tuesday, 13 March, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">10.00–12.00: Session IV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila: Muslims, Sabians, or Zoroastrians?
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Defining the Place of Minority Religions in the Abbasid Empire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Janne Mattila: The School of al-Kindi and Sabianism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Abbas Bahmanpour: Shaykh Saduq (Ibn Babvayh): Tradionist or Reformer? Early Shi</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ʿ</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">ite
Attitudes Towards the Quran<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Jari Kaukua: Discussant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">12.00–1.30 PM: Catered lunch for speakers and discussants in the Common Room<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">1.30–3.00: Session V<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Iwona Gajda: TBA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Rick Bonnie: The Survival of Synagogues in Early Islamic Galilee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Kirsi Valkama: Discussant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">3.00–4.00: Coffee break<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">4.00–6.00: Session VI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Maijastina Kahlos:
<span style="color:#212121;background:white">Pagans and/or Christians? In Search for Local People in Fourth and Fifth Centuries<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Mehdy Shaddel: From “False Pericopae” to “Satanic Verses”: The Doctrine of Scriptural Falsification between the pseudo-Clementina and the Quran<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Ilkka Lindstedt: Jews, Christians, and Believers: Quran Surah 5 and Identity
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%">Ismo Dunderberg: Discussant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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